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Jamaica’s Jeff Panton and Mike Fennell Jnr won round five of the Barbados Rally2 Championship at the Martinique Rallye Tour over the weekend (July 24-27). While he could not match the pace of island hero Simon Jean-Joseph, who claimed the outright victory by 26 seconds in his Porsche 911 GT3, Panton finished second overall for the fourth time since 2017 and held off a strong challenge from local driver Gregory Buchholzer to win the Rally2 class by 14s.

The Rally Barbados trophy is heading to Jamaica for the seventh time. Kyle Gregg, whose father Gary won the event 19 years ago, and Bajan co-driver Kreigg Yearwood celebrated a Jamaican one-two at the Vaucluse Raceway finish of BCIC RB25 on Sunday with Gregg’s fellow-countrymen Jeff Panton and Mike Fennell Jnr, whose run of four back-to-back victories had ended in 2018.

The 2025 Barbados Rally2 Championship opened its fourth season at the weekend on a high note. Not only was the level of competition consistently high, with margins of just tenths and hundredths of a second separating the contenders, but newcomers boosted the entry list to 12, the highest yet for the opening round.

Fresh from his second consecutive win on the Rixy Stages, the last rally of the year in the UK on Sunday (December 29), Rob Swann has confirmed his participation in BCIC Rally Barbados 2025. Having finished second four times, he is as determined as ever to win the island’s premier event on his 17th visit, campaigning his Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo in the FIA R5 class with co-driver Tom Woodburn.